The Sport Unit from the  Directorate-General for Education and Culture launched last 4th April a call for tenders to develop an study on equal treatment of non-nationals in individual sports competitions.

The tender, with 0,3 meuros budget and published on the 4th April, has the following general objectives:

1. To map the situation concerning discrimination on grounds of nationality related to the access and to any other aspect of individual sports competitions in the European Union;
2. To identify and analyse the nature and objectives of the discrimination;
3. To analyse the identified discrimination taking into account the diversity and specific features of the different sport disciplines affected by the discrimination;
4. To analyse the compatibility of the existing discriminatory measures with the Community legal framework;
5. To assess to what extent action at the level of the European Union is needed in order to remedy the possible breaches of Community law deriving from the cases examined.

Proposal must be sent before 15th May to the following adress:
Directorate-General for Education and Culture, Unit Sport/D3
MADO 20/69
Bruxelles/Brussel
1049 BELGIUM

Contact: Gianluca Monte.
Fax +32 22957747
E-mail: eac-sport@ec.europa.eu